1416 Fairbanks – Eel’s Nest

1416 Fairbanks – Eel’s Nest

If you drove down Fairbanks Place off Scott Avenue in Echo Park, you’d stop pensively and ask yourself (à la HGTV’s namesake) “What’s with that house?”

Envisioned by Anonymous Architects’ own Simon Storey and perfectly named Eel’s Nest, the grey, bony townhouse frame rises on a lot size of just 728 square feet. It houses a spartan, minimalistic 2+1 home in less than 1,000 of living space on a re-purposed 1927-era foundation. Trees grow atop a roof deck with foothill views.